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Do you ever look into the deep green shadows of a primeval forest and wonder what those secret depths hold? Do you like to write about your new and inventive discoveries while sipping a glass of fragrant wine? Do you enjoy the creative process? Then I hope you will stop a spell, enjoy the adventure, and travel with me as we imagine the possibilities...

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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

So you’ve written your book, and are ready to
share your writing with the world. What do you do? Who do you go to for help in
this endeavor?

Barbara Joe Williams simplifies the process for
publishing and marketing your masterpiece. In easy to follow steps, Williams
gently holds the reader’s hand and guides the aspiring author through setting
up an office, what type of license is needed, and even provides a list of
supplies. She moves on to offer advice on how to set up your books, standard
sizes, formatting, and designing the book cover, to finally getting your book
in stores, and marketing. Each chapter follows the previous one in steps that
make total sense and lends what I’d thought an agonizing process, a feat that
feels possible and promising.

Williams
is an Amazon bestselling author, indie publisher, and motivational speaker living
in Tallahassee, Florida. She is a Navy veteran, a graduate of Tallahassee
Community College, and Florida A & M University. Barbara is also the
founder of Amani Publishing, LLC (2004), and the co-founder of the Tallahassee
Authors Network since September 2008.

She
has published books for over thirty authors as well as herself. Williams is
generous with her knowledge of the publishing business. Reading this updated
version, I felt as though she were sitting beside me and guiding me. Her
chapters are clear and concise. Each chapter ends with a checklist that
reiterates information learned in that chapter, and helps the reader plan the
next step in publishing their own work.

Williams
states that yes, there are other thicker books with more detail, but I’m not
going there. Her compact e-book gives encouragement as well as information. She
provides links and address to publishing houses, printers, types of programs
and software you might need to handle the publishing and marketing of your
book.

Williams
recommends using an editor and processing your writing so you place before the
world the best you can do. She warns that pride goes before a fall – you have
to listen to your editor. Williams follows her own advice. Her book is
error-free. She has the pages set so they are easy to read and formatted to be
pleasing to the eye.

If
you want to publish and market your own book, then download this one. You won’t
regret it. Ms. Williams says she has no plans to provide “A Writers Guide to
Publishing & Marketing” in paper – I hope she changes her mind. I’d
certainly place her book on my resource shelf, right next to my copies of Stephen
King and Ray Bradbury’s books on writing. [Addendum: This book is now available in paperback!]

Ray
Bradbury said, “If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair.
We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be
cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and
build your wings on the way down.” This is what Barbara Joe Williams does for
writers. She gives us wings to fly on our own.